Surprise: Frances McDormand, who is white, has won Best Actress from the African American Film Critics in their 2017 awards. The group named “Get Out” for Best Picture, Director, and Actor. All the main winners were black, which is appropriate since they’re the African American film critics.
Choosing McDormand is cool and definitely different. They obviously saw something in her character’s defiant journey to get justice for her dead daughter in Martin McDonagh’s original and searing screenplay. It’s a performance full of soul.
McDormand is, of course, an Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winner and is one of our finest actresses. Her work in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” has earned her a Golden Globe nomination will also get her an Oscar nomination next month. If she could sing, she’d have a Grammy.
The critics’ choice is also indicative that this year there were no African American actresses in lead roles. The only black actresses from movies were in the supporting category. That’s certainly a problem that needs to be addressed.
BEST PICTURE
GET OUT
BEST DIRECTOR
JORDAN PEELE – GET OUT
BEST ACTOR
DANIEL KALUUYA – GET OUT
BEST ACTRESS
FRANCES McDORMAND – THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
LAURENCE FISHBURNE – LAST FLAG FLYING
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
TIFFANY HADDISH – GIRLS TRIP
BEST COMEDY
GIRLS TRIP
BEST ENSEMBLE
DETROIT
BEST INDEPENDENT
CROWN HEIGHTS
BEST ANIMATED
COCO
BEST DOCUMENTARY
STEP
BEST FOREIGN
THE WOUND
BEST SCREENPLAY
GET OUT
BEST SONG
“IT AINT FAIR” — DETROIT – THE ROOTS featuring BILAL
BEST NEW MEDIA
MUDBOUND
BEST TV SERIES (COMEDY)
BLACKISH
BEST TV SERIES (DRAMA)
QUEEN SUGAR
BREAKOUT
LAKEITH STANFIELD – CROWN HEIGHTS
AAFCA TOP 10 FILM – 2017
- GET OUT
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI
- COCO
- GIRLS TRIP
- DETROIT
- CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
- THE SHAPE OF WATER
- GOOK
- CROWN HEIGHTS
- MARSHALL
AAFCA TOP 10 TV – 2017
- QUEEN SUGAR: Season 2
- UNDERGROUND: Season 2
- INSECURE: Season 2
- MASTER OF NONE: Season 2
- BLACK-ISH: Season 4
- THE HANDMAID’S TALE: Season 1
- DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: Season 1
- SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Season 1
- THE DEFIANT ONES
- TIE: GUERILLA/SNOWFALL: Season 1